Chapter 39

Author's POV

That morning, Daphne came downstairs after washing up, only to find the dining room eerily quiet.

The breakfast table had already been set-steaming meats, warm bread, and freshly poured blood-orange tea-but Alpha Gideon, Luna Maura, and Torin were nowhere to be seen.

Daphne's brows furrowed slightly. She turned to a housemaid standing nearby. "Where's my father? And Torin? They didn't